You are not conscious enough to comprehend thats why the book is so ridiculous for you. Your reality is distorted.

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And now you're having to resort to fantasy yourself.

Have you tried meditation?

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No.

it will help you relax your mind and get in touch with reality.

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My mind is as relaxed as it needs to be, and you're the one that needs to get get in touch with reality. It would make a change from the nonsense you currently subscribe to. Who knows? You may even learn something.

And I note that you still can't come up with any reasoning as to why you think the book is valid...

My mind is as relaxed as it needs to be, and you're the one that needs to get get in touch with reality. It would make a change from the nonsense you currently subscribe to. Who knows? You may even learn something.

And I note that you still can't come up with any reasoning as to why you think the book is valid...

As I said before, the book is valid because I understand it is valid. Its in the mind, the explanation is beyond words. I feed my mind with many information and ideas. The book is just an information. And I just know which is valid and not valid

Information in its most restricted technical sense is an ordered sequence of symbols that record or transmit a message. It can be recorded as signs, or conveyed as signals by waves. Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system. As a concept, however, information has numerous meanings.[1] Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, representation, and especially entropy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information

I am certainly not going to read this book, and I jumped after reading a few pages of the beginning of this thread to here.

What I did see reminded me a great deal of Carlos Castaneda and books from the late 60's. You are probably familiar with him, but here is the Wiki.

So is that what this junk is? Some sort of "reincarnation" of Castaneda?

Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author who graduated from the University of California with a PhD in Anthropology. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, he wrote a series of books that described his training and awareness expanding experiences, sometimes inaccurately described as traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. Initially his books were considered works of anthropology, but five years after the first book was published, critics such as Joyce Carol Oates began to consider them fiction.

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While today his publisher Simon & Schuster still publishes his popular books as non-fiction, Oates called his writings into question, concluding that his books were fiction. She cited inconsistencies and contradictions, discrepancies between the books and anthropological data, alternate sources for Castaneda's detailed knowledge of shamanic practices, and the lack of corroborating evidence. Critics of the works believe that there is little evidence to suggest that Castaneda's books were the result of actual field work as he claimed.

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One possible (rather large) difference remaining...

Castaneda was very protective of his privacy and until recently little was known about him outside what was learned from his twelve books. He rarely spoke in public except toward the end of his life, and gave very few interviews.

I've read couple of chapters, but it's all the same: the story of his "visit" - not one single thing to link it to reality or explain why we're supposed to accept it. If it weren't published as "fact" then it would largely indistinguishable from, say Michael Moorcock's Warrior of Mars (but not as well-written). I.e. supposedly a narrative of an actual visit to an alien planet and what he did there.

I particularly *cough* enjoyed the part where he writes:
(Alien speaking to him: )

‘At this instant, time has stopped for you, and you could remain here twenty or fifty of your Earthly years and then return as if you hadn’t left. Your physical body would remain absolutely unchanged.’

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Er, if time has stopped how are they conversing? Why, and how, is anything happening?

What I did see reminded me a great deal of Carlos Castaneda and books from the late 60's. You are probably familiar with him, but here is the Wiki.
So is that what this junk is? Some sort of "reincarnation" of Castaneda?

Ha! I just noticed - every check I've done of "Who's Online" for the last 20 minutes has shown liv4ever as replying to this thread. I had assumed he was going to attempt to answer my last question.
Looks like it was one question too many, he's logged out...

I haven't read any Castenada, it's hard enough to get my local library to get me Borges' books!

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I read all sorts of stuff when I was a teenager, trying to figure out what makes "sense".

Remember, this was during a period when all of American society was going through a tremendous paradigm shift evolving from the Vietnam war and associated counter "Hippie" movement up through new age mysticism.

The basic premise seems similar, Castenada ran into "Don Juan" who enlightened Carlos in many ways. For example, he [en]lightened him so much that he was able to jump over houses or barns. And so on... IIRC

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology. It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his master’s thesis in the school of anthropology. It reportedly documents the events that took place during an apprenticeship he claimed to have served with a self-proclaimed Yaqui Indian Sorcerer, don Juan Matus, between 1960 and 1965. The authenticity of the book, along with the rest of Castaneda’s series, has been a topic of debate since they were published.

The book is divided into two sections. The first section, The Teachings, is a first person narrative that documents Castaneda's initial interactions with don Juan. The second, A Structural Analysis, is an attempt, Castaneda says, at “disclos[ing] the internal cohesion and the cogency of don Juan’s Teachings.”

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Emphasis mine...

This was the first book. So instead of Aliens we have "Yaqui Indian Sorcerers". Just think, this stuff was published as fact not fiction! Still technically is, see my linked info in the previous post...